Practice parameters for the management of rectal cancer (revised)

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 411-423

  Tjandra, Joe J ^b   Kilkenny, John W ^b   Buie, W Donald ^b   Hyman, Neil ^a   Simmang, Clifford ^b   Anthony, Thomas ^b   Orsay, Charles ^b   Church, James ^b   Otchy, Daniel ^b   Cohen, Jeffrey ^b   Place, Ronald ^b   Denstman, Frederick ^b   Rakinic, Jan ^b   Moore, Richard ^b   Whiteford, Mark ^b  

^a FLETCHER ALLEN HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT INFORMATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM CARCINOMA; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE SECTION; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 20044390067     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-0937-9     Document Type: Review

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